African Studies S20

AFRICAN STUDIES Spring 2020

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Affective Trajectories

African Kings and Black Slaves

Religion and Emotion in African Cityscapes Edited by Hansjörg Dilger, Astrid Bochow, Marian Burchardt & Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon

Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic Herman L. Bennett

The Early Modern Americas March 2020 240pp 9780812224627 £18.99/$22.50 NIP UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS

Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People February 2020 320pp 9781478006268 £22.99/$27.95 PB 9781478005490 £90.00/$104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Herman L. Bennett mines the historical archives of Europe and Africa to reinterpret the first century of sustained African-European Examines religion and affect in urban Africa in the interaction. early twenty-first century.

Border Jumping and Migration Control in Southern Africa

Embodying Relation

Art Photography in Mali Allison Moore

Art History Publication Initiative June 2020 376pp 102 color and b&w illus.

9781478006626 £23.99/$28.95 PB 9781478005971 £90.00/$104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Francis Musoni

April 2020 256pp 9780253047151 £22.99/$28.00 PB 9780253047144 £73.00/$85.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS

Francis Musoni observes that border jumping has become a way of life for many of those who live on both sides of the Limpopo River and he explores the reasons for this, including searches for better paying jobs and access to food and clothing at affordable prices.

Moore examines the tensions between the local and the global in the art photography movement in Bamako, Mali, which blossomed in the 1990s after Malian photographers Seydou Keïta and Malick Sidibé became internationally famous and the Bamako Photography Biennale was founded.

Ending Gender-Based Violence

Exodus

‘Gbenga Adeoba Foreword by Kwame Dawes

Justice and Community in South Africa Hannah E. Britton

African Poetry Book Series March 2020 78pp 9781496221179 £14.99/$17.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS

April 2020 232pp 9780252084966 £19.99/$24.95 PB 9780252043093 £91.00/$110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS

Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poetry, Adeoba’s collection Exodus focuses on forms of migration due to the Venturing into South African communities, Britton slave trade, war, natural disasters, and economic invites service providers, religious and traditional opportunities. leaders, police officers, and medical professionals to address gender-based violence in their own words.

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Former Guerrillas in Mozambique

Healing from Genocide in Rwanda

Nikkie Wiegink

The 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi Susan Viguers & Lily Yeh

The Ethnography of Political Violence April 2020 280pp 3 illus.

9780812252057 £47.00 /$55.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS

May 2020 144pp full color pictures 9781613321348 £34.00/$40.00 PB 9781613321355 £77.00/$89.00 HB NEW VILLAGE PRESS

In Former Guerrillas in Mozambique, Nikkie Wiegink describes the trajectories of former RENAMO combatants in Maringue, a rural district in central Mozambique.

She examines both male and female war veterans and their attempts at securing a tolerable life.

This work immerses readers in the stories of two Rwandans who as small children experienced the 1994 Genocide.

Excludes SE Asia & ANZ

Histories of Dirt

Kwaito Bodies

Media and Urban Life in Colonial and Postcolonial Lagos Stephanie Newell

Remastering Space and Subjectivity in Post-Apartheid South Africa Xavier Livermon

January 2020 272pp 14 illus.

9781478006435 £21.99/$26.95 PB 9781478005391 £86.00/$99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

April 2020 288pp 35 illus.

9781478006633 £21.99/$26.95 PB 9781478005797 £86.00/$99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Focusing on colonial and postcolonial Lagos, Stephanie Newell traces the ways in which urban spaces come to be regarded as dirty.

Livermon examines the cultural politics of the youthful black body in South Africa through the performance, representation, and consumption of Kwaito—a style of electronic dance music that emerged following the end of apartheid.

‘mamaseko

Naked Agency

Thabile Makue

African Poetry Book Series March 2020 144pp 9781496219602 £14.99/$17.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS

Named after the poet’s mother, ‘mamaseko is a collection of introspective lyrics and other poems dealing with the intersections of blood relationships and related identities. In her poems Makue looks for traces of shared trauma and pain and asserts that wounds of the blood are healed by the same.

Genital Cursing and Biopolitics in Africa Naminata Diabate

Theory in Forms March 2020 272pp 20 illus.

9781478006886 £21.99/$26.95 PB 9781478006152 £86.00/$99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Naminata Diabate explores how the deployment of defiant nakedness by mature women in Africa challenges longstanding assumptions about women’s political agency.

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Policing the Frontier

Readings in Sexualities from Africa

An Ethnography of Two Worlds in Niger Mirco Göpfert

Edited by Rachel Spronk & Thomas Hendriks

Police/Worlds: Studies in Security, Crime, and Governance March 2020 192pp 1 map 9781501747229 £20.99/$24.95 PB 9781501747212 £99.00/$115.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

Readings in African Studies March 2020 350pp 9780253047618 £43.00/$50.00 PB 9780253047601 £86.00/$100.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS

The authors here refuse an easy characterization of African sexuality and instead seek to understand the various erotic realities, sexual practices, and gendered changes taking place across the continent.

In Policing the Frontier, Mirco Göpfert explores what it means to be a gendarme investigating cases, writing reports, and settling disputes in rural Niger.

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Rethinking Cosmopolitanism

Rock | Water | Life

Ecology and Humanities for a Decolonial South Africa Lesley Green

Africa in Europe / Europe in Africa Edited by Salah M. Hassan & Chika Okeke-Agulu

March 2020 328pp 26 photos 9781478003991 £22.99/$27.95 PB 9781478003694 £90.00/$104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

April 2020 150pp 150 illus.

9781478008743 £21.99/$27.00 PB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Lesley Green examines the interwoven realities of inequality, racism, colonialism, and environmental destruction in South Africa, calling for environmental research and governance to transition to an ecopolitical approach that could address South Africa’s history of racial oppression and environmental exploitation.

Contributors to this issue reconfigure concepts of art, culture, and politics through the lens of cosmopolitanism.

Sacrament of Bodies

Signs of the Spirit

Romeo Oriogun

Music and the Experience of Meaning in Ndau Ceremonial Life Tony Perman

African Poetry Book March 2020 78pp 9781496219640 £14.99/$17.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS

Sacrament of Bodies interrogates what it means to be queer, male, and Nigerian. In this groundbreaking work, Oriogun seeks to understand how a queer man can heal in a society where everything is designed to prevent such restoration. His poems deal with grief and how the body finds survival through migration.

June 2020 280pp 9780252085178 £23.99/$30.00 PB 9780252043253 £91.00/$110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS

Signs of the Spirit explores the historical, spiritual, and social roots of ceremonial action and details how that action influences the Ndau's collective approach to their future.

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Sustaining Life

Time Out of Joint

AIDS Activism in South Africa Theodore Powers

The Queer and the Customary in Africa Edited by Kirk Fiereck, Neville Hoad & Danai Mupotsa

Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights March 2020 280pp 9780812252002 £56.00/$65.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS

This title traces how the political principles of the anti-apartheid movement were leveraged to build a broad coalition that changed national HIV/AIDS policy norms and highlights how changes in statesociety relations can be produced by local activism.

May 2020 220pp 5 illus.

9781478008729 £9.99/$12.00 PB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Contributors to this special issue investigate how queer theory might change when African texts, experiences, and concepts are placed front and center rather than treated as examples or case studies.

Africa Every Day

Fun, Leisure, and Expressive Culture on the Continent Edited by Oluwakemi M. Balogun, Lisa Gilman, Melissa Graboyes & Habib Iddrisu

March 2020 256pp 1 map 9781501747151 £31.00/$36.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

For all of the doubts raised about the effectiveness of international aid in advancing peace and development, there are few examples of developing countries that are even relatively untouched by it. Sarah G. Phillips’s When There Was No Aid offers us one such example.

Excludes ANZ

Research in International Studies, Africa Series November 2019 386pp 9780896803244 £27.99/$34.95 PB 9780896803237 £70.00/$85.00 HB OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS

Essays address creative and dynamic elements of daily life in Africa, without romanticizing them.

Afrotopia

Ambivalent

Felwine Sarr Translated by Drew S. Burk

Photography and Visibility in African History Edited by Patricia Hayes & Gary Minkley

Univocal

November 2019 128pp

9781517906917 £20.99/$24.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS

New African Histories November 2019 376pp 9780821423943 £31.00/$36.95 PB 9780821423936 £74.00/$90.00 HB OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS

Through a reflection on contemporary African writers, artists, intellectuals, and musicians, Sarr elaborates Africa’s unique philosophies and notions of communal value and economy deeply rooted in its ancient traditions and landscape.

Excludes Japan & ANZ

Ambivalent gathers a new generation of scholars based on the continent to offer an expansive frame for thinking about questions of photography and visibility in Africa.

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Recent

When There Was No Aid

War and Peace in Somaliland Sarah G. Phillips

Beauty Diplomacy

Beneath the Surface

Embodying an Emerging Nation Oluwakemi M. Balogun

A Transnational History of Skin Lighteners Lynn M. Thomas

Globalization in Everyday Life December 2019 256pp 9781503610972 £22.99/$28.00 PB 9781503608856 £77.00/$90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Theory in Forms January 2020 376pp 85 illustrations (incl. 39 in color) 9781478006428 £23.99/$28.95 PB 9781478005384 £90.00/$104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Beauty Diplomacy takes us inside the world of Nigerian beauty contests to see how they are transformed into contested vehicles for promoting complex ideas about Nigerian society.

Constructs a history of skin lighteners in South Africa and beyond, theorizing skin and skin color as a site for antiracist struggle and lighteners as a technology of visibility that both challenges and entrenches racial and gender hierarchies.

Food for All in Africa

Hot Feet and Social Change

Sustainable Intensification for African Farmers Gordon Conway, Ousmane Badiane & Katrin Glatzel

African Dance and Diaspora Communities Edited by Kariamu Welsh, Esailama Diouf & Yvonne Daniel

November 2019 364pp 3 b&w halftones, 1 b&w line drawing, 10 maps, 38 charts 9781501743887 £20.99/$24.95 PB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

November 2019 272pp 9780252084775 £23.99/$30.00 PB 9780252042959 £103.00/$125.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS

Describe the challenges faced by Africa’s smallholder farmers and presents the concepts of The essays explore myths about African dance.

Sustainable Intensification (SI) as opportunities to Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ sustainably transform Africa’s agriculture sector.

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Living Tangier

Modern Sudanese Poetry

Migration, Race, and Illegality in a Moroccan City Abdelmajid Hannoum

An Anthology Edited by Adil Babikir, Foreword by Matthew Shenoda, Translated by Adil Babikir

Contemporary Ethnography November 2019 312pp 14 illus.

9780812251722 £65.00/$75.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS

Living Tangier examines African migration to Europe and European migration to Africa, focusing on the dynamics of migration in terms of race and legal standing in Tangier, a Moroccan city at the intersection of Africa and Europe. Based on extensive ethnographic work, it explores how migrants experience and affect the city.

African Poetry Book September 2019 186pp 9781496215635 £16.99/$19.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS

Modern Sudanese Poetry features voices as diverse as the country’s ethnic, cultural, and natural composition.

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Panic City

Roses from Kenya

Crime and the Fear Industries in Johannesburg Martin Murray

Labor, Environment, and the Global Trade in Cut Flowers Megan A. Styles, Foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan

February 2020 344pp 9781503611269 £24.99/$30.00 PB 9781503610194 £77.00/$90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Culture, Place, and Nature December 2019 248pp 7 b&w illus., 1 map, 2 charts 9780295746500 £23.99/$30.00 PB 9780295746517 £79.00/$95.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS

Panic City is an exploration of urban fear and its impact on the city’s evolving siege architecture, the transformation of policing, and obsession with security that has fueled unprecedented private consumption of ‘protection services.’

Styles presents the point of view of local workers in this rich portrait of Kenyan floriculture.

Self-Devouring Growth

The Great Upheaval

A Planetary Parable as Told from Southern Africa Julie Livingston

Women and Nation in Postwar Nigeria Judith A. Byfield

Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography September 2019 176pp 20 illus.

9781478006398 £19.99/$23.95 PB 9781478005087 £77.00/$89.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

New African Histories November 2019 276pp 9780821423981 £25.99/$32.95 PB 9780821423974 £66.00/$80.00 HB OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS

In this finely textured social and intellectual history of gender and nation-making, Byfield captures the dynamism of women’s political activism in postwar Nigeria.

Julie Livingston shows how the global pursuit of economic and resource-driven growth comes at the expense of catastrophic destruction.

The Negro Grandsons of Vercingetorix

Unfixed

Photography and Decolonial Imagination in West Africa Jennifer Bajorek

Alain Mabanckou Translated by Bill Johnston

February 2020 352pp 132 illus., incl.

30 in color 9781478003922 £23.99/$28.95 PB 9781478003663 £90.00/$104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Global African Voices October 2019 160pp 9780253043887 £16.99/$20.00 PB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS

Set in the imaginary African Republic of Vietongo, The Negro Grandsons of Vercingetorix, begins when conflict breaks out between rival leaders and the regional ethnic groups they represent.

Award-winning author Alain Mabanckou is at his satiric best in this novel that catalogues the pain and suffering caused by the ravages of civil war.

Bajorek traces the relationship between photography and decolonial politics in Francophone west Africa in the years immediately leading up to and following independence from French colonial rule in 1960.

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